Entomology for beginners. Entomology is the study of insects. This page provides some basic information on insects. First we look at the anatomy of adult insects, and then we will see a short story about the metamorphosis of insects. Insect anatomy.
The range rule tells us that the standard deviation of a sample is approximately equal to one fourth of the range of the data. In other words s = (Maximum â Minimum)/4. This is a very straightforward formula to use, and should only be used as a very rough estimate of the standard deviation.
These values have mean of 17 and standard deviation of about 4.1. If instead we first calculate the range of our data as 25 â 12 = 13, and then divide this number by four we have our estimate of the standard deviation as 13/4 = 3.25.